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UPMC St. Margaret completed a $9.5 million expansion project in late 2004 that doubled the size of the hospital's existing emergency department. Designed by Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann Associates, the 19,000-sf department houses 16 exam rooms, 8 critical care treatment rooms, an infrared patient tracking system and an eight-bed holding suite. The emergency department is part of a new 32,000-sf, two-story addition that houses an isolated decontamination area. The $1.6 million in funding for the decontamination unit was supplied by the U.S.

Gulf Breeze Hospital, part of Pensacola-based Baptist Health Care System, has completed a major improvement and expansion of its Gulf Breeze, Fla., facility. The three-phase project consisted of a 12,100-sf cancer center and outpatient rehabilitation facility, a 30,000-sf medical office building, and a 47,000-sf expansion that triples the footprint of the emergency department, doubles the size of the surgical services and diagnostic imaging departments, and adds a six-bed ICU. The project was constructed by a joint venture of F.E.

The University of Missouri St. Louis is constructing a $26 million, five-story residence hall. Designed by Lotti Krishan & Short of Tulsa, Okla., the 431-bed dormitory will house two- and four-bedroom suites. The project contractor is Kozeny-Wagner of Arnold, Mo.

Temple University in Philadelphia is planning $400 million in construction projects on its main campus. Slated for completion over the next five years, the projects include a $67 million addition to the Fox School of Business and Management; a new $75 million facility for the Tyler School of Art; a $16 million technology center; a $150 million medical school; and renovation of 495,000 sf of science lab facilities.

Stanford University will begin construction in July 2006 on a new science and engineering complex at its Palo Alto, Calif., campus. Set on 8.2 acres of land, the project will consist of four new buildings including an environment and energy facility, a bioengineering/chemical engineering facility, a new School of Engineering center, and a replacement for the E.L. Ginzton lab building. Construction cost for the 550,000-sf project is estimated at between $375 and $420 million. The environment and energy facility will be the first to break ground.